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PEGGY: <i>Commander,
do you have eyes on the target?</i>

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PILOT: Barely. It's moving fast.

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PEGGY: <i>You are free to engage.
We cannot allow it to enter U.S. airspace.</i>

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PILOT: Copy that. Weapons hot.

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- Fire at will.
- (DEVICE BEEPING)

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PILOT: Contact!
The object's hit. It's going down.

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PEGGY: <i>Where?</i>

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(POP SONG PLAYING)

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<i>Waiting for a star to fall</i>

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(EXPLOSION)

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<i>And carry your heart into my arms</i>

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<i>That's where you belong</i>

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(LOUD WHIRRING)

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(LOUD RUMBLING)

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(SIRENS BLARING)

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(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

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OFFICER: What the...

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Is that a kid?

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Not just any kid, but Peter Quill.

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A son of Earth and the stars
whose pain and loss

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now threatens to destroy the very world
he once called home.

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And the entire universe along with it.

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THE WATCHER: <i>Time.</i>

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<i>Space.</i>

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<i>Reality.</i>

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<i>It's more than a linear path.</i>

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<i>It's a prism of endless possibility,</i>

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<i>where a single choice
can branch out into infinite realities,</i>

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<i>creating alternate worlds
from the ones you know.</i>

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<i>I am the Watcher.</i>

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<i>I am your guide
through these vast new realities.</i>

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<i>Follow me and ponder the question...</i>

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<i>"What if?"</i>

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<i>Six months earlier,</i>

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<i>the Ravagers were dispatched to abduct
Peter Quill from his home world.</i>

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<i>But young Quill's captor
couldn't bring himself to turn him over</i>

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<i>and chose to raise him as his own.</i>

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<i>At least, that's how the story often goes.</i>

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<i>But in this universe,
Yondu never had his change of heart.</i>

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<i>So he turned Peter over to his father,
the Celestial being known as Ego.</i>

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(CHUCKLES) Well, you won't be
needing these anymore, Peter.

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Not when there's so much more
for you to play with.

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THE WATCHER: <i>Ego called it the Expansion,</i>

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<i>a long-held dream to remake the universe
in his image.</i>

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<i>And with his son now at his side,</i>

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<i>he had all the power he needed
to bring it to fruition.</i>

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PEGGY: <i>Orbital Intelligence
has retraced his steps</i>

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across dozens of nearby solar systems,

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all destroyed,
consumed by a wave of cosmic radiation

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within 24 hours of his arrival.

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And I thought my kid
was a pain in the ass.

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Tony has spunk.

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This kid has an entire nuclear arsenal
coursing through his veins.

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HOWARD: With that kind of firepower,

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I don't know that there's
a person on Earth who can stop him.

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Not one person working alone, but a team,

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made up of the best
our little planet has to offer.

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You forgetting we're
in the middle of a Cold War?

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All that <i>We Are the World</i> garbage
doesn't really play outside of MTV.

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This boy has already torn through
midtown Manhattan

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in a matter of minutes, Howard.

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At the rate he's going, our planet
won't last a day. We need help.

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(SIGHS)

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Okay. Who's on our roster?

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Um, there's no vegetable.

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(SIGHS) The potato chips
are the vegetable.

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Seriously?

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(SIGHS)

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- And you're supposed to be a scientist?
- And you're supposed to like potato chips.

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(SIGHS)

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(PHONE RINGING)

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HOWARD: <i>Hank, please don't hang up.</i>

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(PHONE RINGING)

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You know, for a genius, Stark,
you're pretty slow on the take.

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<i>Listen, if you don't wanna talk to me,
that's fine.</i>

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<i>Just do one thing. Turn on the TV.</i>

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- What?
- Dad? You should see this.

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REPORTER: <i>...Grand Central Terminal
and parts of Midtown.</i>

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<i>The aircraft's occupant
was seen...</i>

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Send the plane.

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HOWARD: <i>One step ahead of you.</i>

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(PLANE ENGINE ROARING)

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(SCOFFS) Typical.

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Hey, honey. You wanna go to work with Dad?

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Whoa! This is where you work?

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HANK: (CHUCKLING) No, no.
Used to work, sweetie. Not anymore.

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This is so cool.

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Things must be real bad
if they had the balls to call us in.

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Foster. Great. Now I know it's a disaster.

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Always a pleasure. What's the matter?
Didn't wanna spring for a sitter?

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You know damn well I don't have anyone
to leave her with, thanks to this place.

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Let's save the fighting
for the battlefield, shall we?

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Wow. Who's the guy in the armor?

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PEGGY: King T'Chaka of
the African kingdom of Wakanda.

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They don't typically involve themselves
in global affairs, but...

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- HOPE: Aliens?
- Yes, aliens.

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Your Highness, it's a pleasure.

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Your father was a great ally to us
during the war.

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Yes, I understand he even donated
some Vibranium to your efforts.

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We made a shield out of it
and lost it in the Arctic.

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But other than that,
things turned out pretty well.

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Hey, how'd the Commies snag an invite?

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Gorbachev wanted the target contained
before he reaches Moscow.

104
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So he sent the Winter Soldier,
the world's most deadly assassin.

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(GASPS) It looks just like him, Howard.
Just like Bucky.

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I'd heard the rumors.

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But even if they're true,
the man we knew is long gone, Peg.

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And we have bigger fish to fry.

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Satellites indicate an alarming rate
of cosmic radiation

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emanating from the hostile's path.

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He's on the move,
heading towards Coney Island.

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And if we don't get there
and take him out now,

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the entire Eastern Seaboard won't be
inhabitable for the next half century.

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Are we even gonna be able
to intercept him in time?

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New York's a long way
from the Mojave Desert.

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- Not in my ride.
- Dr. Wendy Lawson, U.S. Air Force.

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She's spearheading our joint research
into the Tesseract.

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That uniform doesn't
really look like air force.

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It's not. It's Kree Starforce.

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- What?
- Long story. I'll explain on the way.

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- (ENGINE WHIRRING)
- Great. We got a Cat Man.

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Space Broad, Giant Man.

123
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Silent But Deadly. Good to see you.

124
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- And you're gonna be the crusty guy.
- I was just saying...

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Buckle up, Crusty.
This bird's kind of a kick in the pants.

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(RUMBLING)

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(DISTANT EXPLOSIONS)

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This kid puts on quite a show.

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Hmm?

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ANIMATRONIC ATTENDANT:
<i>Dunk a duck, win a prize!</i>

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<i>Dunk a duck, win a prize!</i>

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BLACK PANTHER: From my perch,
he does not look all that threatening.

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LAWSON: <i>Looks can be deceiving,
Your Highness.</i>

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BILL: <i>You'd think the leader
of a technological superpower</i>

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00:08:07,375 --> 00:08:10,166
<i>that masquerades as a Third World country
would appreciate that.</i>

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BLACK PANTHER: I see your point.

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HANK: <i>Lawson, how are we looking?</i>

138
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I'm at the crash site.
Moving in to secure the pod ship now.

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<i>Everybody in position?</i>

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Relax. I got the perimeter.

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HANK: <i>You've been juicing, Foster?</i>

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<i>I seem to remember you
maxing out at 21 feet.</i>

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BILL: <i>I made some adjustments, Hank.
I figured it's the end of the world.</i>

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<i>Go big or go home.</i>

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BLACK PANTHER: If you two are finished
measuring your statures,

146
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I have eyes on the target.

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He appears to be enjoying himself
on this tilt-a-whirl.

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LAWSON: <i>If you can isolate the kid,</i>

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<i>you should be able to trap him
in the photon grid.</i>

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HANK: You cover the trap.
I'll handle the boy.

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BLACK PANTHER: <i>Are you sure
you do not want any backup?</i>

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HANK: <i>No. I'm great with kids.</i>

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- (INSECTS TRILLING)
- HANK: What's the matter, kid?

154
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- What?
- HANK: Something bugging you?

155
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(GASPS, YELPS)

156
00:08:59,833 --> 00:09:01,000
(GRUNTS)

157
00:09:01,208 --> 00:09:03,749
BILL: <i>Okay, show time.
Panther, get ready with that tranquilizer.</i>

158
00:09:03,833 --> 00:09:05,666
HANK: Luring him to your position now.

159
00:09:05,750 --> 00:09:07,582
I'll rendezvous as soon as I can.

160
00:09:07,666 --> 00:09:10,541
This tech's advanced.
It's gonna take me a minute to crack it.

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00:09:13,625 --> 00:09:14,916
(BULBS BREAKING)

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00:09:17,125 --> 00:09:18,666
(PANTS, YELPS)

163
00:09:20,166 --> 00:09:22,916
(YELPING)

164
00:09:24,625 --> 00:09:26,625
(PANTING)

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(DEVICE WHIRRING)

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- (LASER ZAPS)
- (GASPS)

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(SIZZLES)

168
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BLACK PANTHER: Resistance will only
make this more difficult, my young friend.

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(GROWLS)

170
00:09:51,208 --> 00:09:52,957
(GRUNTS, EXHALES)

171
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Well, that went poorly.

172
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(GRUNTING)

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BILL: I got him.

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00:09:59,416 --> 00:10:01,582
(GASPS) Oh, no. No!

175
00:10:01,666 --> 00:10:03,207
(GRUNTS) Whoa!

176
00:10:03,291 --> 00:10:05,791
- Ha!
- (GRUNTS) Ahhh!

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00:10:07,541 --> 00:10:08,541
Little help here.

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00:10:10,583 --> 00:10:11,957
(BEEPING)

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00:10:12,041 --> 00:10:13,249
LAWSON: <i>Pull back, Killer.</i>

180
00:10:13,333 --> 00:10:16,166
If the Cube in that jet blows,
there won't be a planet left to save.

181
00:10:16,250 --> 00:10:17,250
Hyah!

182
00:10:19,791 --> 00:10:21,250
(GRUNTS)

183
00:10:27,375 --> 00:10:29,208
(GASPS, GRUNTS)

184
00:10:29,875 --> 00:10:30,874
(GRUNTS)

185
00:10:30,958 --> 00:10:33,083
(COUGHS, GRUNTS)

186
00:10:33,625 --> 00:10:35,582
- Thanks, big guy.
- Anytime.

187
00:10:35,666 --> 00:10:37,041
Whoa!

188
00:10:37,125 --> 00:10:39,374
Guys. Problem child, 12 o'clock.

189
00:10:39,458 --> 00:10:41,082
- (GRUNTS)
- Oh, no!

190
00:10:41,166 --> 00:10:43,874
(COUGHS, GRUNTS)

191
00:10:43,958 --> 00:10:45,500
BLACK PANTHER: Does anyone have a plan?

192
00:10:46,875 --> 00:10:48,833
HANK: I've got a plan. Retreat.

193
00:10:49,916 --> 00:10:51,250
BILL: Come on, people.

194
00:10:57,166 --> 00:10:58,625
Okay, let's go.

195
00:11:02,875 --> 00:11:05,416
Whoa! Aw, come on!

196
00:11:09,583 --> 00:11:11,041
(THUNDERCLAPS)

197
00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,208
ALL: Whoa!

198
00:11:23,666 --> 00:11:25,666
Who the hell is that guy?

199
00:11:26,625 --> 00:11:30,333
Wow. Is it really you?

200
00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:33,833
If you are referring to your doom,
then yes.

201
00:11:34,208 --> 00:11:38,250
Bummer. I thought you were
the dude from Van Halen.

202
00:11:40,166 --> 00:11:41,875
I'm... Van what?

203
00:11:43,541 --> 00:11:47,250
THOR: <i>Jotunheim was the first to fall.
Asgard soon thereafter.</i>

204
00:11:48,041 --> 00:11:52,500
<i>One by one, the armies of the Nine Realms
perished at that boy's hands.</i>

205
00:11:52,708 --> 00:11:56,291
Until this realm, Earth,
was all that remained.

206
00:11:56,875 --> 00:11:59,832
Well, surely, if you've come all this way,
you must have a plan in mind?

207
00:11:59,916 --> 00:12:01,250
The Celestial seedling.

208
00:12:01,416 --> 00:12:04,957
Ego has used them to implant his essence
on planets across the universe.

209
00:12:05,041 --> 00:12:08,749
I recovered Earth's on my way here
from a place called Missouri.

210
00:12:08,833 --> 00:12:11,999
So that's how he's doing it.
He's consuming these planets.

211
00:12:12,083 --> 00:12:16,957
The seedlings are the fuse of
Ego's Expansion, a fuse that must be lit.

212
00:12:17,041 --> 00:12:18,999
By the child. That is why he is here.

213
00:12:19,083 --> 00:12:22,791
So, why don't we just shove this thing
down the garbage disposal? Problem solved.

214
00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:26,166
Wrong. The seedling is protected
by a veil of cosmic energy.

215
00:12:26,250 --> 00:12:29,166
Only a being of Celestial origin
can penetrate it.

216
00:12:29,250 --> 00:12:32,625
Well, lucky for us,
we have one in custody.

217
00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:38,166
<i>- So if you're lost and on your own
-</i> (SINGING ALONG)

218
00:12:39,208 --> 00:12:42,999
<i>You can never surrender</i>

219
00:12:43,083 --> 00:12:47,874
<i>And when the night is cold and dark</i>

220
00:12:47,958 --> 00:12:51,833
- (MUSIC INAUDIBLE)
<i>- You can see...</i> (SCATS) <i>light</i>

221
00:12:52,416 --> 00:12:53,583
Whoa!

222
00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:56,499
(HUMMING)

223
00:12:56,583 --> 00:12:57,874
- (MUSIC CONTINUES)
<i>- To fight and...</i>

224
00:12:57,958 --> 00:12:58,957
You know it.

225
00:12:59,041 --> 00:13:00,624
<i>To never surrender</i>

226
00:13:00,708 --> 00:13:02,416
<i>To never...</i>

227
00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:03,583
Come on. (CHUCKLES)

228
00:13:04,833 --> 00:13:06,457
Nope? Just me?

229
00:13:06,541 --> 00:13:07,707
- (MUSIC STOPS)
- (SIGHS)

230
00:13:07,791 --> 00:13:09,082
Kinda awkward.

231
00:13:09,166 --> 00:13:12,125
Cool song, though. It's always been
one of my mom's favorites.

232
00:13:12,250 --> 00:13:14,416
Or at least it was.

233
00:13:14,625 --> 00:13:17,374
- My mom loved it too.
- That her Walkman?

234
00:13:17,458 --> 00:13:18,499
Um...

235
00:13:18,583 --> 00:13:21,332
It's just,
you're holding on to it pretty tight.

236
00:13:21,416 --> 00:13:25,083
I know if I still had mine,
I'd probably be doing the same.

237
00:13:25,916 --> 00:13:30,832
You know, you don't seem so bad,
given where you're from.

238
00:13:30,916 --> 00:13:32,332
Hey, what's wrong with Missouri?

239
00:13:32,416 --> 00:13:36,041
Missouri? My dad said you were an alien.

240
00:13:36,125 --> 00:13:39,166
Dude, feed me a corn dog
and call me Springsteen,

241
00:13:39,250 --> 00:13:41,041
because I was born in the U.S.A.

242
00:13:41,125 --> 00:13:44,457
Why else do you think I'd fly
10,000 light-years to get here?

243
00:13:44,541 --> 00:13:49,166
In a ship, by the way, with no tape deck.
I'm just trying to get home.

244
00:13:52,458 --> 00:13:53,666
(ALARM BLARING)

245
00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:56,125
Security breach
in the detainment facility.

246
00:13:58,166 --> 00:14:02,166
Where are my particles? And where's Hope?
And where's my key card?

247
00:14:02,250 --> 00:14:03,791
(PANTING)

248
00:14:06,291 --> 00:14:07,291
Whoa!

249
00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:12,291
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

250
00:14:13,875 --> 00:14:16,041
And thank you, Dad.

251
00:14:17,583 --> 00:14:19,791
- Whoa! That was crazy.
- (GIGGLES)

252
00:14:19,875 --> 00:14:24,000
I noticed a bus stop about a mile out.
It should get you to where you need to go.

253
00:14:24,208 --> 00:14:28,666
- And here. I want you to have this.
- What? No way. This was your mom's.

254
00:14:28,750 --> 00:14:34,166
Look, it's a long ride to Missouri,
and she'd be glad to know I'm sharing.

255
00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,583
Thanks, Hope.

256
00:14:37,583 --> 00:14:38,582
I owe you one.

257
00:14:38,666 --> 00:14:41,583
HANK: Hope! Come on.
I think they're down here.

258
00:14:42,041 --> 00:14:47,332
Oh! Hope. Thank God. You okay, sweetie?
Did he hurt you?

259
00:14:47,416 --> 00:14:50,375
Hurt me? Peter? He's a kid, like me, Dad.

260
00:14:50,875 --> 00:14:52,957
I was just trying to help him get home.

261
00:14:53,041 --> 00:14:57,166
- Home? Like his home world?
- No, like Missouri.

262
00:14:57,916 --> 00:15:02,083
You guys are making a mistake.
Peter's not behind all this. It's his dad.

263
00:15:02,333 --> 00:15:05,874
He says he's, like,
a weird alien space god or something.

264
00:15:05,958 --> 00:15:09,749
Yeah. Great. Blame the absentee father.
I get that enough from my own son.

265
00:15:09,833 --> 00:15:11,749
HANK: Sweetie, we really
need to find your friend.

266
00:15:11,833 --> 00:15:15,249
Did he say anything more specific
about where he might be headed?

267
00:15:15,333 --> 00:15:16,582
THOR: This is taking too long.

268
00:15:16,666 --> 00:15:19,541
I will find the boy and destroy him
and the seedling myself.

269
00:15:19,625 --> 00:15:22,666
Hey, Lightning Boy, we kind of have
a team thing going on here.

270
00:15:22,750 --> 00:15:25,666
And I have a duty thing going on here,
Mustache Man.

271
00:15:25,750 --> 00:15:28,332
To see to it that the boy
submits to Asgardian justice.

272
00:15:28,416 --> 00:15:30,749
Which entails what, exactly?

273
00:15:30,833 --> 00:15:33,666
Eternal flagellation, impalement,
some light maiming.

274
00:15:33,750 --> 00:15:35,124
You know, standard stuff.

275
00:15:35,208 --> 00:15:37,582
We can't just let you take him.
We need to study him.

276
00:15:37,666 --> 00:15:38,791
BUCKY: We need to kill him.

277
00:15:38,875 --> 00:15:39,874
(GASPS)

278
00:15:39,958 --> 00:15:43,541
- He's a threat, even without the seedling.
- Well, what do you know? He speaks.

279
00:15:43,625 --> 00:15:46,041
And who would've thought?
He's advocating murder.

280
00:15:46,125 --> 00:15:50,082
- It's a bit on the nose, if you ask me.
- Nevertheless, his logic is sound.

281
00:15:50,166 --> 00:15:52,832
So long as the boy lives,
this planet will never be safe.

282
00:15:52,916 --> 00:15:55,041
And is that not what we're here to ensure?

283
00:15:55,125 --> 00:15:56,125
That's right.

284
00:15:56,666 --> 00:15:58,874
You're here to do the right thing.

285
00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,625
And Peter deserves our help
as much as anyone.

286
00:16:02,833 --> 00:16:04,541
You want me to tell you where he went?

287
00:16:04,625 --> 00:16:07,291
Then you have to promise me
you'll help him.

288
00:16:07,833 --> 00:16:09,750
You know that's what Mom would've done.

289
00:16:12,750 --> 00:16:14,791
(SONG PLAYING)

290
00:16:15,333 --> 00:16:16,416
EGO: <i>Peter.</i>

291
00:16:17,166 --> 00:16:18,208
<i>Peter.</i>

292
00:16:20,250 --> 00:16:21,916
<i>Why can't he hear me?</i>

293
00:16:22,291 --> 00:16:24,832
Why can't I connect with my son?

294
00:16:24,916 --> 00:16:27,916
COMPUTER: <i>According to his ship's logs,
the vessel was compromised</i>

295
00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,333
<i>by an enemy combatant
before sustaining catastrophic damage.</i>

296
00:16:32,916 --> 00:16:35,458
- EGO: Where?
- <i>Earth.</i>

297
00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,125
Well, then I guess I'll have to finish
what he started myself.

298
00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:45,124
(PULSATING)

299
00:16:45,208 --> 00:16:47,916
Uh, Thunder Guy,
is it supposed to be doing this?

300
00:16:48,416 --> 00:16:51,457
The seedling is awakening.
Its master nears.

301
00:16:51,541 --> 00:16:52,541
(ALARM BLARING)

302
00:16:52,625 --> 00:16:57,499
We've got incoming. Another alien vessel
about to make landfall, right outside.

303
00:16:57,583 --> 00:16:58,708
Oh, man.

304
00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:06,832
Well, guess that's the dad.
The girl was right.

305
00:17:06,916 --> 00:17:09,374
(SCOFFS) Wouldn't I love to have that
printed on a T-shirt.

306
00:17:09,458 --> 00:17:11,832
We have our hands full with
just one of these Celestials.

307
00:17:11,916 --> 00:17:13,374
How are we gonna take on two?

308
00:17:13,458 --> 00:17:17,457
There is an ancient Wakandan proverb
from the days before our tribes united.

309
00:17:17,541 --> 00:17:22,124
"One only wins a two-front war
by getting out of your enemy's way."

310
00:17:22,208 --> 00:17:23,832
- Meaning?
- If you can't fight 'em both,

311
00:17:23,916 --> 00:17:24,957
let 'em fight each other.

312
00:17:25,041 --> 00:17:27,041
Lawson, tell me you got eyes on that kid.

313
00:17:27,541 --> 00:17:31,124
LAWSON: <i>Picking up some cosmic radiation
that's definitely not of this world.</i>

314
00:17:31,208 --> 00:17:33,916
HOWARD: <i>You find him,
you bring him in ready to suit up.</i>

315
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:35,249
<i>He may be our only hope</i>

316
00:17:35,333 --> 00:17:36,582
<i>- of stopping dear old dad.</i>
- (SIGHS)

317
00:17:36,666 --> 00:17:40,457
You really think a child is going to be
so willing to fight his own father?

318
00:17:40,541 --> 00:17:41,541
- (CHUCKLES)
- What?

319
00:17:41,625 --> 00:17:43,707
You're not a parent, are you, Wendy?

320
00:17:43,791 --> 00:17:45,791
(ENGINES WHIRRING)

321
00:17:52,166 --> 00:17:53,625
(BILL EXHALES)

322
00:18:07,708 --> 00:18:11,582
You've taken something from me.
I'd like it back.

323
00:18:11,666 --> 00:18:15,708
Not so long as there is breath
in my body. (GRUNTS)

324
00:18:17,791 --> 00:18:19,125
For Asgard!

325
00:18:21,958 --> 00:18:23,458
(GASPS, GRUNTS)

326
00:18:25,125 --> 00:18:26,583
(GRUNTS)

327
00:18:27,333 --> 00:18:30,124
BILL: (SCOFFS) You got any breath left
in there, buddy?

328
00:18:30,208 --> 00:18:34,249
Hand over the seedling
and this will all be over.

329
00:18:34,333 --> 00:18:36,458
PEGGY: All this, meaning us? (SCOFFS)

330
00:18:36,583 --> 00:18:39,749
Not gonna happen.
So if you've come to destroy us,

331
00:18:39,833 --> 00:18:42,625
you're going to be leaving here
very disappointed.

332
00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:46,875
Destroy you? No. No, no, no.
I've come to save you.

333
00:18:47,583 --> 00:18:49,375
By growing and spreading.

334
00:18:49,541 --> 00:18:55,874
Covering all that exists,
until every part of you is me.

335
00:18:55,958 --> 00:18:58,041
(RUMBLING)

336
00:19:03,666 --> 00:19:05,374
BLACK PANTHER:
You don't see that every day.

337
00:19:05,458 --> 00:19:06,874
BILL: Great.

338
00:19:06,958 --> 00:19:10,750
EGO: And if you will not give us back
what is ours...

339
00:19:12,125 --> 00:19:14,458
We will take it from you!

340
00:19:17,625 --> 00:19:18,666
Fire!

341
00:19:22,500 --> 00:19:23,541
BILL: Let's dance.

342
00:19:24,125 --> 00:19:25,499
Whoa!

343
00:19:25,583 --> 00:19:26,750
(GRUNTS)

344
00:19:36,083 --> 00:19:37,208
PEGGY: Incoming!

345
00:19:41,916 --> 00:19:43,916
(METAL RINGING)

346
00:19:46,666 --> 00:19:47,750
(LAUGHS)

347
00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:57,041
(RUMBLING)

348
00:19:57,125 --> 00:19:59,458
- BLACK PANTHER: What?
- By Odin's beard!

349
00:20:06,125 --> 00:20:08,708
- BILL: Oh, I gotta go bigger.
- Take him out!

350
00:20:10,750 --> 00:20:13,791
We'll hold them off for as long as we can,
but Ego's forces are coming.

351
00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:15,666
<i>You need to get
that seedling out of there.</i>

352
00:20:15,750 --> 00:20:17,749
Sounds like a job
for our resident Terminator.

353
00:20:17,833 --> 00:20:19,791
Home Plate to Winter Soldier. Do you copy?

354
00:20:19,875 --> 00:20:21,207
(RADIO STATIC BUZZES)

355
00:20:21,291 --> 00:20:24,916
- Winter Soldier, do you copy?
- (RADIO STATIC BUZZING)

356
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:29,999
LAWSON: Okay, Hank, look.

357
00:20:30,083 --> 00:20:32,749
I can use this gravitational control
to hold him down,

358
00:20:32,833 --> 00:20:34,207
but I'll need you to subdue him.

359
00:20:34,291 --> 00:20:36,499
We're dealing with
an 8-year-old here, Lawson.

360
00:20:36,583 --> 00:20:39,583
We want him to help,
we have to make him want to.

361
00:20:40,083 --> 00:20:41,916
BUCKY: The Americans
have located the target.

362
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,625
(KARPOV ON RADIO IN RUSSIAN)

363
00:20:45,708 --> 00:20:49,207
(IN ENGLISH) Hey there, kid.
I'm Hank. Hope's dad.

364
00:20:49,291 --> 00:20:51,291
She has told me a lot about you.

365
00:20:51,375 --> 00:20:54,957
Everything that's happening,
it's not me, it's him.

366
00:20:55,041 --> 00:20:58,458
He has this power to get inside my head.

367
00:21:01,458 --> 00:21:02,791
BILL: What you got? What you...

368
00:21:02,916 --> 00:21:05,000
Oh! (GRUNTS)

369
00:21:05,250 --> 00:21:07,375
I can't... (SCREAMS)

370
00:21:09,041 --> 00:21:11,375
Come on. Let's go. Yeah!

371
00:21:12,291 --> 00:21:13,666
(GRUNTING)

372
00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:15,291
BLACK PANTHER: (GRUNTS) Come on!

373
00:21:17,750 --> 00:21:21,791
I thought maybe if I came back here,
I wouldn't feel so alone.

374
00:21:22,583 --> 00:21:27,583
But (SIGHS) without my mom,
it doesn't even feel like home anymore.

375
00:21:28,041 --> 00:21:30,416
(KARPOV ON RADIO IN RUSSIAN)

376
00:21:33,250 --> 00:21:35,207
- HOWARD: (IN ENGLISH) <i>Stand down, soldier.</i>
- Huh?

377
00:21:35,291 --> 00:21:37,291
<i>I intercepted your handler's transmission.</i>

378
00:21:37,666 --> 00:21:39,125
It's just you and me, pal.

379
00:21:39,416 --> 00:21:40,750
BUCKY: There is no me.

380
00:21:42,166 --> 00:21:45,166
PEGGY: <i>Fall back!
All units, all units, fall back!</i>

381
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,291
(THOR GRUNTING)

382
00:21:47,375 --> 00:21:49,332
I know how you feel, Peter.

383
00:21:49,416 --> 00:21:53,082
Since we lost Hope's mom,
our home hasn't felt the same either.

384
00:21:53,166 --> 00:21:55,791
And to be honest, neither have I.

385
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,999
<i>The pain, the anger, the loneliness.</i>

386
00:22:00,083 --> 00:22:03,332
<i>I know it can feel
like you're drowning in it, but I haven't,</i>

387
00:22:03,416 --> 00:22:04,875
<i>and you don't have to either,</i>

388
00:22:05,250 --> 00:22:08,458
so long as you let the people around you
pull you out.

389
00:22:08,833 --> 00:22:11,541
HOWARD: <i>Bucky, when you see that kid,
all you see is a target.</i>

390
00:22:11,875 --> 00:22:15,832
<i>But I see a future.
The life he can lead, the good he can do.</i>

391
00:22:15,916 --> 00:22:17,041
And I see it in you too.

392
00:22:17,458 --> 00:22:19,291
BUCKY: You don't know me.

393
00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:20,582
HOWARD: <i>Steve Rogers did.</i>

394
00:22:20,666 --> 00:22:25,416
<i>And the man he knew, the friend he loved,
would never take that shot.</i>

395
00:22:29,083 --> 00:22:30,500
(BILL GROANING)

396
00:22:32,166 --> 00:22:33,625
We've got a big problem.

397
00:22:34,791 --> 00:22:35,832
(GRUNTS)

398
00:22:35,916 --> 00:22:37,041
(BLACK PANTHER GRUNTS)

399
00:22:37,125 --> 00:22:38,833
Stark, are you seeing this?

400
00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:41,458
Howard, you have hostiles inbound!

401
00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:46,874
Peter, come back with us. Please.

402
00:22:46,958 --> 00:22:49,750
- (SNIFFLES, SIGHS)
- Come join our family.

403
00:22:52,041 --> 00:22:53,833
Bucky, please.

404
00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:56,833
Well, kid, what do you say?

405
00:22:59,250 --> 00:23:00,250
Bucky.

406
00:23:03,916 --> 00:23:05,250
(BUCKY GASPS SOFTLY)

407
00:23:11,166 --> 00:23:12,166
(SIGHS)

408
00:23:12,250 --> 00:23:14,249
HOWARD: <i>Hank. Lawson. Did you get the kid?</i>

409
00:23:14,333 --> 00:23:15,500
Yeah, we got him.

410
00:23:15,625 --> 00:23:17,916
- HOWARD: <i>We need him back here now.</i>
- Roger that.

411
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,416
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) Fifty years later,
Captain America is still saving my ass.

412
00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:24,582
PEGGY OVER RADIO: <i>Repeat,
the base has been compromised.</i>

413
00:23:24,666 --> 00:23:26,750
<i>- Get out of there!
-</i> (BOTH GASP)

414
00:23:27,833 --> 00:23:29,916
(GASPS, GRUNTS)

415
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,500
No! The seedling!

416
00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:36,625
If someone doesn't stop that seedling,
we are done for!

417
00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:42,333
- BLACK PANTHER: I can't break free.
- (GRUNTS) No!

418
00:23:44,041 --> 00:23:45,541
BILL: We're not gonna make it.

419
00:23:45,625 --> 00:23:47,957
(ENERGY CRACKLING)

420
00:23:48,041 --> 00:23:49,249
(BLACK PANTHER SCREAMS)

421
00:23:49,333 --> 00:23:52,457
- Someone must stop it.
- (SONIC BOOM)

422
00:23:52,541 --> 00:23:54,541
- (CHUCKLING) Yes!
- BILL: Oh, yeah!

423
00:23:54,625 --> 00:23:58,208
- As if on cue, Wendy!
- Crusty, jump.

424
00:24:07,416 --> 00:24:11,125
HANK: We got it!
I hope you're right about this, kid.

425
00:24:23,333 --> 00:24:25,875
Peter. (CHUCKLES) You're alive!

426
00:24:26,250 --> 00:24:29,875
And you... Well, you seem to have
fallen in with the wrong crowd.

427
00:24:30,083 --> 00:24:31,874
This is my home, Dad.

428
00:24:31,958 --> 00:24:35,457
This is my mom's home.
And I can't just let you destroy it.

429
00:24:35,541 --> 00:24:37,499
That's the mortal in you, Peter.

430
00:24:37,583 --> 00:24:42,041
In time, though, you'll come
to understand everything dies.

431
00:24:42,666 --> 00:24:44,291
Except us.

432
00:24:44,458 --> 00:24:48,541
How could you say that?
My mother, you said you loved her.

433
00:24:48,625 --> 00:24:50,082
And that I did.

434
00:24:50,166 --> 00:24:52,707
But I knew if she were to live,
the Expansion,

435
00:24:52,791 --> 00:24:57,000
the reason for our existence,
would never come to pass.

436
00:24:57,916 --> 00:25:02,583
So I did what I had to do,
as you must now, Peter.

437
00:25:02,791 --> 00:25:04,916
You killed my mother?

438
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,416
No, no, no, no. I get it. You're upset.

439
00:25:07,791 --> 00:25:11,791
(CHUCKLES) But you know you don't have
the power to destroy me, Peter.

440
00:25:12,083 --> 00:25:15,207
- You're right. But you do.
- Peter...

441
00:25:15,291 --> 00:25:19,083
And with this, a little bit of you
will always live inside of me.

442
00:25:19,666 --> 00:25:22,416
(GRUNTS) Deep down,
I guess I've always known

443
00:25:22,500 --> 00:25:24,624
you'd turn out to be a disappointment.

444
00:25:24,708 --> 00:25:26,750
You are human after all.

445
00:25:27,041 --> 00:25:31,083
Actually, old man,
my mom says I'm a Star-Lord.

446
00:25:31,916 --> 00:25:33,500
EGO: Peter!

447
00:25:36,125 --> 00:25:37,750
(PETER SCREAMING)

448
00:25:39,958 --> 00:25:41,375
(EGO SCREAMS)

449
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,750
(GRUNTS) Yes! (LAUGHS)

450
00:25:55,541 --> 00:25:56,541
Peter?

451
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,833
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)

452
00:26:10,125 --> 00:26:12,916
It's a recipe, Hank.
You're not splitting the atom.

453
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,249
To be honest, splitting the atom
is a lot more intuitive.

454
00:26:16,333 --> 00:26:19,166
This American libation
is surprisingly delicious.

455
00:26:19,250 --> 00:26:20,707
What do you call it?

456
00:26:20,791 --> 00:26:22,249
Uh, light beer?

457
00:26:22,333 --> 00:26:24,499
- (CHUCKLES) How exotic. Another!
- (ALL LAUGHING)

458
00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:26,916
- And this little chicky's name is Goose.
- (CHUCKLES)

459
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,874
I thought maybe you kids
might like to have her.

460
00:26:28,958 --> 00:26:31,457
- Thanks, but I'm more a dog guy.
- (CHUCKLES)

461
00:26:31,541 --> 00:26:34,707
- Peter, you don't say no to a free cat.
- (PETER CHUCKLES)

462
00:26:34,791 --> 00:26:38,124
- Hey, any word on Silent But Deadly?
- He's in the wind.

463
00:26:38,208 --> 00:26:41,000
- That mean we should lock our doors?
- I don't think so.

464
00:26:41,250 --> 00:26:43,499
<i>Something broke through
that day in Missouri.</i>

465
00:26:43,583 --> 00:26:45,416
<i>The Winter Soldier may be out there,</i>

466
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:48,458
<i>but I'm pretty sure Bucky Barnes
is out there with him.</i>

467
00:26:52,666 --> 00:26:54,374
BILL: Oh, that's funny.
HOWARD: Yeah?

468
00:26:54,458 --> 00:26:55,957
HANK: In Asgard.
BILL: Yeah, exactly.

469
00:26:56,041 --> 00:26:57,416
T'CHAKA: Do you have similar pajamas?

470
00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:00,041
- Or do you go to sleep in your armor?
- THOR: And 53 gods is good.

471
00:27:00,125 --> 00:27:01,332
LAWSON: Okay, bucko.

472
00:27:01,416 --> 00:27:05,207
Many, many thanks to all of you
for this fine victory banquet.

473
00:27:05,291 --> 00:27:07,416
But I am afraid I must bid thee farewell.

474
00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:10,332
Come on. What about dessert?
Hank burnt a pie.

475
00:27:10,416 --> 00:27:13,374
The boy may have
destroyed Ego's corporeal form,

476
00:27:13,458 --> 00:27:15,249
but his planet still lives.

477
00:27:15,333 --> 00:27:19,707
And the universe will not know peace
until I have avenged the ones we've lost.

478
00:27:19,791 --> 00:27:22,416
So, what, Thunder brother? No invite?

479
00:27:22,500 --> 00:27:24,291
Perhaps you forgot, Goldilocks,

480
00:27:24,375 --> 00:27:27,583
we have sort of a team thing
going on here.

481
00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:30,458
Then I suggest you suit up, team.

482
00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:42,500
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